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The Mosquito Coast

49
metacriticBased on 12 Critics

Release Date: November 26th, 1986

PG|1 hr. 58 min.

Plot Summary
A brilliant but unstable inventor and his family create what they hope will be their Utopia in Central America.

Cast: , , , , , , ,

Director:

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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  • 40
    Julie SalamonWall Street Journal

    The picture's blandness - and hollowness - is startling when you consider the collaborators. [26 Nov 1986] show more

  • 88
    TV Guide Magazine

    A courageous and serious film that explores the limits of the mythic American virtues of persistence, inventiveness, and rugged individualism. show more

  • 50
    Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times

    The movie has been directed and acted so well, in fact, that almost all my questions have to do with the script: Why was the hero made so uncompromisingly hateful? show more

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